Poeming!

Hey, everyone! April is approaching, and it's National Poetry Writing Month. Participants aim to write 30 poems in the 30 days of April. Many of us are listing our websites on http://www.NaPoWriMo.net in order to share what we're doing with the challenge.

Normally I don't post much of my poetry online, mostly because I'm hoarding it and submitting it to literary journals and such in hopes of getting some published. But I'll make an exception for April. That said, in order to keep up I'll have to post a lot of drafts (eek!)

In that spirit, here's a small poem I don't mind sparing from my hoard:

 

 

The Yellow Pansies

 

Broken pansy bloom.

I think: How brazen to bet

one's fate on something so paperlike,

looming, wind-tilting, on such

a slender stem.